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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2055842 Title: gstreamer: unreliable playback due to pulseaudio bug Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in pulseaudio source package in Noble: Fix Released Status in pulseaudio source package in Oracular: Fix Committed Bug description: [ Impact ] gstreamer playback may hang after seeking. This affects all video/audio players that use gstreamer as their backend. The cause of the problem is a pulseaudio bug that was fixed in version 16.2 Some upstream bugs are QTBUG-122424, QTBUG-122423, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/-/issues/573 Here we backport the relevant patches: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/745 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/764 [ Test Plan ] 1. Open a movie in the Totem video player 2. Repeatedly seek back and forth for a few minutes 3. Verify that the playback never hung 4. Verify that the audio plays correctly [ Regression potential ] libpulse0 is a critical component of Ubuntu Desktop. It provides the audio interface for all applications. A bug in libpulse0 may break audio input/output in one or many applications. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/2055842/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
